Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb mantle
2 senses of mantle
Sense 1
mantle -- (spread over a surface, like a mantle)
=> diffuse, spread, spread out, fan out -- (move outward; "The soldiers fanned out")
Sense 2
mantle -- (cover like a mantle; "The ivy mantles the building")
=> cover, spread over -- (form a cover over; "The grass covered the grave")
Antonyms of adj mantled
1 sense of mantled
Sense 1
cloaked, clothed, draped, mantled, wrapped -- (covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; "leaf-clothed trees"; "fog-cloaked meadows"; "a beam draped with cobwebs"; "cloud-wrapped peaks")
INDIRECT (VIA covered) -> bare -- (lacking its natural or customary covering; "a bare hill"; "bare feet")
Similarity of adj mantled
1 sense of mantled
Sense 1
cloaked, clothed, draped, mantled, wrapped -- (covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; "leaf-clothed trees"; "fog-cloaked meadows"; "a beam draped with cobwebs"; "cloud-wrapped peaks")
=> covered (vs. bare) -- (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form; "women with covered faces"; "covered wagons"; "a covered balcony")